Distracted? Let’s make technology that helps us spend our time well | Tristan Harris | TEDxBrussels
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Moving from *Time Spent* to *Time Well Spent*?
In this TEDx talk by Tristan Harris, he campaigns for a change in design
philosophy. Too often products are designed to simply suck you in and waste
your time. The success metrics for such products are “the more time spent,
the better”… the outcome is addictive designs that manipulate users with
slot-machine psychology, and have no respect for users’ time or their
desire to live fulfilling lives.
To fix this fundamental nastiness in products, we need to change the
metrics for design success, such that they measure actual *good* outcomes
for users. (Tristan gives some examples.) We need to choose design goals
that will make the world a better place.
And this is truly possible – he suggests a solution by which such
technology could be marketed, which should help make such design goals
economically viable for all kinds of corporations.
#fb #Mindful
Distracted? Let’s make technology that helps us spend our time well. TEDx
talk by Tristan Harris
And another notable thing. I remember attending this guy’s first internal
tech talk about the idea of “attention respectful” design inside Google –
now he’s presenting on TED. This is the kind of change I would like to see
in online technology, and as the talk points out, it actually is possible
to achieve it even for a commercial company by marketing such technology as
being in a different category of quality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT5rRh9AZf4
Interesting TED talk on an “Organic” label for technology designed for
mindfulness and helping us spend our time well..
His idea of ‘making technology that helps us spend our time well’ requires
us to define what we mean by ‘time well spent’. His definition is ‘making a
positive contribution to human life’.
If you have 15 min to spare, watch this great talk from +Tristan Harris. He
discusses the importance of having technology designed for time well spent.
If the subject resonates with you, please share the talk! #timewellspent
You can also visit the website timewellspent.io
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT5rRh9AZf4
If you have 15 min to spare, watch this great talk from +Tristan Harris. He
discusses the importance of having technology designed for time well spent.
If the subject resonates with you, please share the talk! #timewellspent
You can also visit the website timewellspent.io
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT5rRh9AZf4
Merging humanity with technology “Time Well Spent” this is a cutting edge
concept! Tristan Harris this is out of the box stretch your mind and heart
type of thinking. I especially like that this concept can provide
opportunities for us to become compassionate toward those on the other side
of my computer. Choosing to live and work towards being respectful,
purposeful and efficient in our daily task while using technology.
Fantastic Idea ! Elizabeth would agree!
Carrie Forest
on +TED An “Organic” label for technology that respects our time | Tristan
Harris | TEDxBrussels
Tristan Harris is a design thinker, philosopher and entrepreneur – most
recently focused on Design Ethics.
Tristan is rated #16 in Inc Magazine’s Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30, a
former Mayfield Fellow in Stanford’s Technology Venture Program in
Entrepreneurship, and graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from
Stanford University.
Currently he’s developing a framework at Google to help product designers
facilitate conscious choices for users. Before this, he was co-founder and
CEO of Apture, an instant explanation engine that enabled millions of users
to get on-the-fly explanations about any topic without leaving their place
on the web. Google acquired Apture in 2011.
An “Organic” label for technology that respects our time:
http://timewellspent.io/
Distracted? Let’s make technology that helps us spend our time well ..
Are we spending our time well?… Worth a moment to think about.
Distracted? Let’s make technology that helps us spend our time well. TEDx
talk by Tristan Harris
Awesome talk from Tristan Harris.
‘Organic’ slightly misleading.
Some people still not aware of their behavior in respect to the problem
presented in the first few minutes of the talk.
I love the focus idea.
*Rettinger’s Riffs*: Next Gen Smartphone Technology
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You know what should happen? Phones displays should be 720p (1080p if some
of you want to whine), as the pixel density is good enough anyway. That
way, the phone can be faster, and it can have better battery. 2K is
unnecessary.
Battery life all the way!!! take a look at the thl 5000, it’s chinese but
on the right track, a bit of extra thickness for days of charge. I like it
but too bad its chinese and would only last a year :L. but wow they fit a
5000mah battery in there! thats enough to use as a battery bank for you
iphone on top of the battery power for itself
1000000000000000000000000% AGREE WITH YOU! I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO PUSH THIS
ENVELOPE FOR LIKE YEARS!!! CAN YOU ALL IMAGINE A DAY WE CAN HAVE A BATTERY
THAT LITERALLY COULD LAST US AN ENTIRE WEEK? WHY CANT WE INNOVATE ON
BATTERY TECH.
There have been some very very promising battery upgrades people have come
up with, extremetech website had a bunch of articles on them but they never
go into mass production…. i really feel like someone is trying to
purposely halt the battery development i mean seriously how is it possible
we havent had a major battery revolution if we have literally had one in
every other department… THERE ARE ALTERNATIVES I KNOW THAT FOR SURE but
people need to start pushing for change!!! I want a week spans battery FOR
MY PHONE LETS GET IT DONE!!!
The G3 has an incredibly shitty battery. It’s not even the battery,
actually. It’s the fucking QHD display. It doesn’t even look immensely
different to a high quality 1O8OP display.
Battery life and storage please!
Oh and quick updates…
exactly
and that’s because I bought the zerolemon 9000mah battery for my G3
this is the day number 4
maby
and I’m not used to the size
so I might take it out when I want to move more and go to different places
but it really feels safe when useing but if the battery was able to live
half of what this monster can
I wouldn’t have bought it
We want supercapictors and we want them now! I think the government is
suppressing that technology to make more money!
Technology review companies like Technobuffalo and others are in trouble.
They all started about the same time when the original iPhone came out in
2007. Since then, technology has become rather stagnant. Yes there has
been spec upgrades and hardware upgrades, but the basic premise of
technology has become stagnant. In 2007 using a smartphone was very
exciting for me, almost like when I turned 16 and got my drivers license.
But now, using a smartphone is no different to me than using a toaster, or
TV, or washing machine, It’s just another tool or utility. In the 80’s
the PC revolutionized technology, in the 90s the internet revolutionized
the PC, in the 2000’s the smartphone and mobile apps revolutionized the
internet. This decade still has 6 years left, but I am ready for something
completely new and different. I’m bored of what we’ve been seeing lately.
A longer battery (even if the battery lasts a month without charging) is
NOT revolutionary. Something new, different, and currently unimaginable is
going to need to come along to get me excited the way I once was. The only
problem is that innovators and industry leaders of technology have died or
retired, and now CEO’s of tech companies are more concerned with stock
share than innovation. The light bulb, railroads, the radio, the
automobile, highways, airplane, the TV, and now the computer / smartphone,
have all had their day in the spotlight and faded away to common utilities.
Every generation produces a major innovation. I’m 31 years old and my
generational innovation has been the computer, I’ve grown up with it all my
life and witnessed the incredible changes. But it’s time for a completely
new industry to emerge and change the world, outside of the internet or
computers. The “computer” and everything associated with it (including
facebook, twitter, insta-whogivesafuck) is old news
agree 100% we need more battery power! Not just to phones, but tech in
general. It’s ridiculous we are seeing watchs with 1 day battery. I have
choosed a pebble more than any of the other options just because the
battery life. And when you have 1 year with any phone? Battery life drains
dramatically and it’s end at the middle of a regular day. That’s absurd.
The worst thing is nobody is taking this issue because, and this is my
opinion, they can’t figure it out how to solve it.
Your absolutely correct John We Need larger batteries, enough with this
stupid battery saving options that turn half your phone off or basically
turn it into an old dumb phone thats not what we need. A smartphone is
meant to be a device that runs apps and games and well we all know just how
fast your battery depletes when playing our favorite graphic intensive game
such as Real Racing 3 or Modern Combat 5, ect. Now there’s no way really to
fix the issue of such power draining so we need device makers to slam a
massive battery in there so we can play our favorite games for hours and
still have enough juice left over to watch our favorite YouTube channels
and get that message from the wife to pick up a pack of diapers because our
little one just desecrated their last one and she could end up using our
favorite microfiber cloth if we don’t get that message lol.
Nobody cares how thin a phone is and I wish the companies would realize
that, I mean why are they still attempting to make phones thinner and
thinner when we are all ALWAYS asking for bigger batteries it doesn’t make
sense.
I think decide makers think about themselves when making a device and don’t
factor in those of us that love to play games and watch videos on our
phones, They think well this is getting great battery life for me, and all
they’re doing is answering emails, texts and making calls like most
executives do which are things that take absolutely no battery life what so
ever so to them the device is getting amazing battery life and they don’t
understand the complaints.
I agree battery life on most phones bar phablets are awful!
I use a Note 3 ! Battery life is very good and I always have a backup ready
to go ! So I easily get 2 days of use when adding in my backup battery. Its
the reason I only buy Samsung phones . I love to be able to swap out the
battery when needed and I can also have as many backup batteries as I want
! Beside haring IOS and everything Apple makes the internal non swappable
battery keeps me far away from Apple and any other phone I can’t change the
battery in !!
The battery comment you made is just..YESss for real, if i could get a
phone that last more than a day without me have to plug it would make me
the happiest with my phone. All these people talking about how their phones
is better because of its processor, quit acting like you can even manuver
around you amazing phones without looking like straight up apes. XD you
phones processing power isnt even relevent cause if you could manuver
around your phone without have to open and close ten different apps, it
wouldnt even seem like youre spending a significant amount of time. Battery
tech needs to happen know cause other aspects of the phone are miles a head
in comparison.
Multi window multi tasking for ios thats something that apple needs and
needed since samsung introduced it , and the iphone 6 and the iphone 6+ are
such a small uprade in my opinion bigger and ois and nfc ok what else ?
What about , 4gb ram,16 megapixels , something new? (Laser keyboard
included , projector inside the phone) something that’ll convince customers
)
I agree. Make my phone thicker if you use that extra space for a bigger
battery. I don’t need thinner. I need a longer-lasting phone.
My idea will be future of battery technology.
all credits goes to T90 FILMS
The human body produces a lot of heat, energy, any everytime u swipe ur
finger on the screen. Produces heat due to friction…n add photo volatile
cells around the phone…if all this energy is used to charge the phone
U can get to point where, there will be nothing called low battery.
Remember T90 FILMS. Thanks
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honestly, if a company focuses on battery life.. they’d crap on everyone
else. Imagine not charging your phone everyday. Reminds me of the Nokia
3310 days lol. Every person that reviewed the note 4 says that the battery
life gets them a full day. And it does with me too but usually I end up
with like 10%. The fast charging is awesome though.
So what he is saying that smartphones can not be anymore improved. WTF
Completely agree. It doesn’t matter what your phone can do if it isn’t on.
you have the most powerful phone in the world buy that matters nought in
the battery only last 10 min. I’ve got a 3000mAh battery case from Mugen
Power on my Nexus 5 to give it a total of 5300mAh and usually arrive home
with the Nexus’ internal battery still at 100%. Sure, the phone is now at
least twice as thick but I like the extra thickness as I find it easier to
hold
Yes, this is why I want the next Moto flagship to have the Turbo’s battery
with the X’s design sensibilities. Make it thicker, I don’t care. Just
prettier.
That said, more efficient chips do wonders for battery life, so I care more
about that than how we typically measure specs (3D benchmarks, etc). This
is why tablet computers are becoming feasible now, and why phones can get
away with being so thin. But we can have efficiency AND larger batteries.
Don’t settle like Apple!
Was that a portable wireless charger I just saw? If so, what is the brand?
I think I said “fone”.
I can see to have a phone to last all day, but it gets pointless to get a
phone that lasts longer than 2 days. Pretty much when you go somewhere
there will be a place to charge your phone. If you bring up the camping
excuse, you don’t need to be on your phone anyway! (Camping means getting
away, sorry.)
Androids are laggy, lame, and not an Apple iPhone!